# Is The Polar Express antiscience? (spoilers in the OP)

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**Created:** [November 11, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-polar-express-antiscience-spoilers-in-the-op/673635 "2013-11-11T12:50:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-polar-express-antiscience-spoilers-in-the-op/673635/33 "2013-11-12T14:40:21Z")

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Last year, **Chronos** started a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=676845) in which he pointed out the real problem with movies like this.

> [@Movies in which Santa is real](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-santa-is-real/645234/1):
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> There are plenty of movies which take the premise that Santa really is real, but that grown-ups, sadly, don’t believe in him (or at least, not the “sensible” ones). But how exactly is this supposed to work? Is Santa delivering gifts to children, or not? If he is, then surely their parents would notice all these gifts arriving from who-knows-where. But if he’s not, then just what is Santa doing?

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